Everyone loves to have fun with their food and Little Nummies has lots of ideas to get you started. Take a look at these hot dog ideas: an octopus protecting his treasure and a little hot dog snail complete with snail slime - the kids will love it!

The Little Travelers shares how they made these wool felted soaps: a bar of soap surrounded by felted wool! This is a great introduction to wool felting plus the soaps will add some excitement to bathtime for any reluctant bathers out there ;)

Molly Monkey from Mmmcrafts would make a wonderful handmade gift for that special child on your holiday list :) This great tutorial is available for free to download and includes color pictures, the pattern and detailed instructions!

These beautiful leaves were made with watercolors and diffuser paper (same as coffee filter paper) and then grommets were added for easy hanging! All the details and a resource for the leaves at Mother Rising :)

Remember this wonderful idea - dollhouses from gourds?! Well, Bitter Betty has been kind enough to write up a tutorial on how to make your own! These are definitely on my gift-making list; my youngest wants a house for his trolls so I think these will be perfect :)

I had good luck thrifting the other day and found some wonderful old sewing cards and paper dolls! I've scanned and uploaded them to Lulu so they are available for you to download and enjoy. Go to my other blog, Bella Dia, to see all that's available and the link for downloading :)